Senator indicted for drug trafficking, money laundering and transnational crime

[snoop1130]

 

Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun was formally indicted today on narcotics trafficking, money laundering and association with a transnational criminal organisation charges.

 

The senator has denied all the charges and applied for bail, by placing five million baht in cash as a surety. The court is yet to decide whether to grant bail.

 

Prayut Petchkun, spokesman for the Office of the Attorney-General, said that Senator Upakit’s case will be separately tried from the case of his Burmese business associate, Tun Min Latt, who was arrested in Thailand in August last year and who is currently on trial on similar charges. Also arrested was Dean Young Gultula, Upakit’s son-in-law.

 

Caption: File photo: Upakit Pajariyangkun

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-12-14

 

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[bamnutsak]

For a while, it looked like this scuzz-bucket would skate.

 

He was indicted back in March, and an arrest warrant was issued and quietly withdrawn.

 

 

Upakit Pachariyangkun: Thai senator under scrutiny for Myanmar connections

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/upakit-pachariyangkun-thai-senator-under-scrutiny-for-myanmar-connections/

 

 

In related news...

 

THAI POLICE SEIZE A RECORD HAUL OF 50 MILLION METHAMPHETAMINE TABLETS NEAR BORDER WITH MYANMAR

 

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police have seized what is being called a record haul of methamphetamine tablets in the western province of Kanchanaburi, close to the Myanmar border.

 

Officers found an estimated 50 million tablets hidden in sacks in a six-wheeler truck they stopped at a joint police-military checkpoint on Tuesday. The occupants of the truck – a man and a woman – were arrested.

 

The quantity of methamphetamine tablets seized is a record for Thailand, Jeremy Douglas, the Southeast Asia regional representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said Wednesday. The region’s biggest known seizure took place in neighboring Laos in October 2021, when a consignment of 55 million pills was discovered.

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2023/12/13/thai-police-seize-a-record-haul-of-50-million-methamphetamine-tablets-near-border-with-myanmar/

 

 

[dinsdale]

Have a nice flight. Maybe Thaksin has a nice villa somewhere you can rent from him.

[2baht]

He looks like a dodgy character...senator?....yeah right! 

[ThailandRyan]

58 minutes ago, 2baht said:

He looks like a dodgy character...senator?....yeah right! 

One of Prayuts hand picked folks....so much corruption with that group.

[Gottfrid]

Time to team up with Tammanat

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Have a nice flight. Maybe Thaksin has a nice villa somewhere you can rent from him.

Dubai is nice this time of year ..

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

He looks like a dodgy character...senator?....yeah right! 

I think the photo makes him looks like he will be attending many falang weddings dressed in orange soon

[Srikcir]

13 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

Officers found an estimated 50 million tablets

You're not talking about some Mom and Pop kitchen operation. There must be some major production facilities producing these tablets. 

Read "Drug traffickers smuggling crystal meth past South East Asia security - UN", June 2023 https://www.bbc.com

Included is yaba.

If Mynamar is a major production point, it would seem the military junta government shouldn't have much difficulty identifying and suppressing such production being trafficking to ASEAN countries where the street value can be 10 times higher in Bangkok. Yet what we hear is the efforts of Thailand and China to suppress meth distribution. What is Mynamar doing? Self funding?

[2baht]

6 hours ago, Srikcir said:

What is Mynamar doing? Self funding?

What Myanmar has done for decades, supplying the world with illicit gutter drugs. What else comes out of here???